From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2014-08-28T02:59:04+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:64600] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #10179] [Open] Net::HTTP::Get.new("https://google.com").basic_auth(user_name, password) should throw exception stating the need to set use_ssl to true

shankga@gmail.com wrote:
> Alternatively Net::HTTP could just detect https urls and do this for you.

This sounds good.  I cannot think of any downside...